TO FREE THEM. THE GIRLS WERE ABDUCTED FROM THEIR SCHOOL SIX WEEKS AGO. ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY... WE GIVE SPECIAL HONOR TO THE VETERANS WHO SERVED AND PROTECTED THIS COUNTRY. HUNDREDS OF VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES GATHERED TO PAY TRIBUTE AT THE LIBERTY MEMORIAL. NATS OF BAND MUSIC THE CEREMONY FOCUSED ON THREE THINGS. RESOLVE, RESPECT, AND REMEMBER. AND WHILE WE UNITE TO THANK THOSE WHO SACRIFICED AND FOUGHT FOR US-- KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES INSISTS WE HAVE A LOT MORE TO DO BEFORE THIS CAN BE A TRUE CELEBRATION. CLIP 0030-- 36:09-- THE BIGGEST REMINDER OF WHY WE'RE HERE ARE VETERANS SLEEPING UNDER BRIDGES , VETERANS WHO LACK PROPER HEALTHCARE. VETERANS WHO LACK PROPER MENTAL HEALTHCARE. 36:20 * * *---EDIT * * *-- 3627...AND YET WE CONTINUE YEAR AFTER YEAR TO GATHER ON THIS DAY TO HONOR VETERANS BUT WE ARE NOT TRULY HONORING THE VETERANS THAT ARE STILL ALIVE, IF WE DON'T DO ANYMORE FOR THEM THAN WE'RE DOING NOW. 36:41 AS PART OF TODAY'S CEREMONY-- U-S CONGRESSMAN EMANUEL CLEAVER RECOGNIZED FOUR KANSAS CITY AREA MOTHERS. EACH LOST A SON IN THE WAR. A WREATH WAS PLACED IN THEIR HONOR. ALSO AT THE LIBERTY MEMORIAL TODAY... SEVERAL 'WALK OF HONOR' BRICKS WERE DEDICATED. KMBC 9'S MICHEAL MAHONEY JOINS US WITH THAT PART OF THE STORY. THE MUSEUM SAYS THERE ARE MORE THAN 9-THOUSAND BRICKS, LIKE THESE, THAT HAVE BEEN DEDICATED AND PLACED ON THIS WALK OF HONOR. MORE JOINED THEM TODAY. (PACK) (BUSKE AND WIFE LOOKING FOR HIS BRICK CLIP 1) RON BUSKE AND HIS WIFE FOUND HIS BRICK THIS MORNING.IT WAS ADDED LAST ONE. (CLIP 8 DAD'S BRICK, LEROY) HONORING HIS DAD, WHO WAS IN THE NAVY IN WORLD WAR TWO. (FLAGS AT MEMORIAL) BUSKE ALSO TAUGHT ROTC FOR 20 YEARS. HE THINKS PARTIOTISM HAS COME BACK: --SOT- ( CLIP 7 43:28 IN I SEE AN ( CLIP 10 OR CLIP 12) BILL WHITE, IN THE AMERICA FLAG SHIRT IS HERE BECAUSE THEY'RE DEDICATING A BRICK FOR HIS WIFE'S FATHER. SOON THERE MAY BE MORE: --SOT- ( CLIP 13 45:59 IN: I'M GOING TO FATHER, AND MY UNCLE. MY FATHER WAS IN THE NAVY IN WWI IN A SUBMARINE. MY UNCLE WAS IN THE MARINES. ( AND CERTAINLY AT THE BRICKS: --SOT- (CLIP 28 50:55 IN: IT'S A REAL OC" BE HERE FOREVER) DAVE NAPOLI, VOLUNTEER: IT'S A REALLY TRIBUTE TO A FAMILY MEMBER TO PUT A BRICK IN HERE, BECAUSE PUT A BRICK IN HERE, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE HERE FOREVER. EACH YEAR ON MEMORIAL DAY AND ON VETERANS DAY IN THE FALL, THEY DEDICATE THE NEW BRICKS THAT HAVE BEEN INSTALLED ON THE LIBERTYY MEMORIAL'S ' WALK OF HONOR'.